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I need to write more, a lot more, about Burning Man. I just can't seem to string two hours together to do it. I look forward to the challenge of communicating some impressions. It was an amazing experience. Not transformative, unfortunately. Maybe next time.

TMI: Evidently something I ate today really liked me. It wouldn't leave without a struggle.

I have a habit of defending certain strongly disliked conservatives. I hope this doesn't put off my more liberal friends. It happens because a) over the past decade and a half it has become crystal clear that the lovely human trait of bigotry respects no ideological boundaries and I am especially disappointed that so many self-described liberals have become so very bigoted, and b) of the more ridiculous opinions I usually only see the liberal side. If someone would point me to something worth ridiculing that was said of Obama/Biden I would be grateful for the chance to test my impartiality. Note the proviso "worth ridiculing". There are plenty of right wing sites I've literally zero time for. Both wings, really.

My father went home from the convalescent hospital today. Yay! He hadn't been home for four months. Continues on a slow and steady mend. I must say, getting old isn't for the weak.

Yes, more and more I want universal health care. Used to take a Darwinistic approach to society, heavily influenced by an Objectivist friend and my general (and well-founded) distrust of government programs. But apart from the alleged injustice of wealth (and health) disparity, the overall society and its individuals will do better, I think, if resources aren't squandered taking care of people only in their extremity and meanwhile denying them the health to be productive. Similar to how the South flourished with the end of Jim Crow, so the world should flourish if the inability to pay for treatment is removed as an obstacle to health and productivity.

While we're at it, marijuana should be legalized and gay marriage made an uncontroversial element among the many ways human adults bond together. And that probably about exhausts my cred as a liberal. Otherwise, I'm one of the few people who still admits the world would actually be a worse and more dangerous place if we had not interfered with Iraq when we did. Yes, shitloads of mistakes and so on, but I look at the big picture.

Oh, I'm a big supporter of public schools too. We ought to quintuple the funding. And disband the unions. And require parental involvement. And promote on capability. And fix the curriculum to be interesting and relevant. Easy peasy!

Now I'm rambling so that's enough. What did I start this poast about? I forget.